Hi all, wondering if anyone has any experience of the above? Are they up to much or not?
I`ve the chance to get my mitts on a Coleman brand propane lantern fairly locally to me for the equivalent of about 70 quid. I have faffed around with a simple cheap flat-wick oil lamp before but am looking for something a bit more portable, that gives off a bit more light, and that can be manpacked easily without worrying about spilling paraffin all over the insides of my daysack. The Coleman is billed as a lantern, has a mantle, and propane seems less leak-prone than oil so I`m thinking it could be the way to go. I think they have "North Star" and "Instastart" models for sale, I don`t know if there`s a whole lot of difference between them though.
Seems like propane in those 1lb canisters is more of an American thing rather than a British thing, I have a relatively local source of them but does anyone know if you can screw in one of the far more common self-sealing gas cans used for stoves and such over in the UK? Or are the fittings completely different?
Do they also put out a decent amount of heat like an oil lamp? Intended use is fishing in winter so I can defrost those hands, been doing a bit of sea angling but would like to get in some shore fishing too now and maybe even keep the freezer topped off
I`ve the chance to get my mitts on a Coleman brand propane lantern fairly locally to me for the equivalent of about 70 quid. I have faffed around with a simple cheap flat-wick oil lamp before but am looking for something a bit more portable, that gives off a bit more light, and that can be manpacked easily without worrying about spilling paraffin all over the insides of my daysack. The Coleman is billed as a lantern, has a mantle, and propane seems less leak-prone than oil so I`m thinking it could be the way to go. I think they have "North Star" and "Instastart" models for sale, I don`t know if there`s a whole lot of difference between them though.
Seems like propane in those 1lb canisters is more of an American thing rather than a British thing, I have a relatively local source of them but does anyone know if you can screw in one of the far more common self-sealing gas cans used for stoves and such over in the UK? Or are the fittings completely different?
Do they also put out a decent amount of heat like an oil lamp? Intended use is fishing in winter so I can defrost those hands, been doing a bit of sea angling but would like to get in some shore fishing too now and maybe even keep the freezer topped off